If we look to the Bible for historical accounts of ancient life, we make a profound error, according to this book. Sifting through the imaginative layers of these texts, it unearths patterns ...
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If we look to the Bible for historical accounts of ancient life, we make a profound error, according to this book. Sifting through the imaginative layers of these texts, it unearths patterns connecting disparate passages, providing fascinating insights into how ideas were expressed, received, and transformed in the ancient Near East. Ranging from Jacob's encounter with Leah to the marriage at Cana to Jesus' encounter with the woman at the well, these readings demonstrate the remarkable subtlety and sophistication of the biblical views on marriage, sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation, and love.Less

Sex and Religion in the Bible

Calum Carmichael

Published in print: 2010-02-23

If we look to the Bible for historical accounts of ancient life, we make a profound error, according to this book. Sifting through the imaginative layers of these texts, it unearths patterns connecting disparate passages, providing fascinating insights into how ideas were expressed, received, and transformed in the ancient Near East. Ranging from Jacob's encounter with Leah to the marriage at Cana to Jesus' encounter with the woman at the well, these readings demonstrate the remarkable subtlety and sophistication of the biblical views on marriage, sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation, and love.

The vertebrate fossil record extends back more than 500 million years, and bonebeds—localized concentrations of the skeletal remains of vertebrate animals—help unlock the secrets of this long ...
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The vertebrate fossil record extends back more than 500 million years, and bonebeds—localized concentrations of the skeletal remains of vertebrate animals—help unlock the secrets of this long history. Often spectacularly preserved, bonebeds—both modern and ancient—can reveal more about life histories, ecological associations, and preservation patterns than any single skeleton or bone. For this reason, they are frequently studied by paleobiologists, geologists, and archeologists seeking to piece together the vertebrate record. In this book, thirteen researchers combine their experiences to provide readers with workable definitions, theoretical frameworks, and a compendium of modern techniques in bonebed data collection and analysis. By addressing the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of bonebed research, they provide the background and methods that students and professionals need to explore and understand these records of ancient life and death.Less

Bonebeds : Genesis, Analysis, and Paleobiological Significance

Published in print: 2008-01-30

The vertebrate fossil record extends back more than 500 million years, and bonebeds—localized concentrations of the skeletal remains of vertebrate animals—help unlock the secrets of this long history. Often spectacularly preserved, bonebeds—both modern and ancient—can reveal more about life histories, ecological associations, and preservation patterns than any single skeleton or bone. For this reason, they are frequently studied by paleobiologists, geologists, and archeologists seeking to piece together the vertebrate record. In this book, thirteen researchers combine their experiences to provide readers with workable definitions, theoretical frameworks, and a compendium of modern techniques in bonebed data collection and analysis. By addressing the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of bonebed research, they provide the background and methods that students and professionals need to explore and understand these records of ancient life and death.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton' The Last Days of Pompeii (1834, LDP) was one of the most popular English historical novels of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of the virtuous Greeks Glaucus and Ione, ...
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton' The Last Days of Pompeii (1834, LDP) was one of the most popular English historical novels of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of the virtuous Greeks Glaucus and Ione, their escape from Pompeii amid the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, and their eventual conversion to Christianity, against a background of Roman decadence and corrupt Eastern religion. This chapter seeks to relate LDP's emphasis on the exposition and reconstruction of ancient city life in Pompeii to its author's interaction with the excavations and with their publication in the work of Sir William Gell and to the contemporary literary genre of novelized handbooks on Greek and Roman private life. It suggests that the extant Latin novels of Petronius and Apuleius are implicitly claimed by Bulwer-Lytton as prestigious literary ancestors of LDP's own form.Less

Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii : Re-creating the City

Stephen Harrison

Published in print: 2011-11-17

Edward Bulwer-Lytton' The Last Days of Pompeii (1834, LDP) was one of the most popular English historical novels of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of the virtuous Greeks Glaucus and Ione, their escape from Pompeii amid the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, and their eventual conversion to Christianity, against a background of Roman decadence and corrupt Eastern religion. This chapter seeks to relate LDP's emphasis on the exposition and reconstruction of ancient city life in Pompeii to its author's interaction with the excavations and with their publication in the work of Sir William Gell and to the contemporary literary genre of novelized handbooks on Greek and Roman private life. It suggests that the extant Latin novels of Petronius and Apuleius are implicitly claimed by Bulwer-Lytton as prestigious literary ancestors of LDP's own form.